Director, World Model – Agentic Learning

Johnson & Johnson

Director leading the AI science team at Johnson & Johnson for innovative medicine and agentic learning. Overseeing technical direction and accountability in the R&D AI platform.

Posted 7/12/2026full-timeTitusville • California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $164,000 - $282,900 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in building and shipping AI/ML systems, with a focus on large language models, agentic frameworks, and knowledge representation. Proven leadership in recruiting and managing technical teams while aligning diverse stakeholders around a cohesive technical strategy.

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AI/ML Systems DevelopmentLarge Language ModelsKnowledge RepresentationTechnical Architecture LeadershipPeople Leadership

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Hard Skills

AI SystemsMachine LearningActive LearningIn-Context LearningMemory-Based LearningOutcome-Driven RefinementTechnical ArchitectureKnowledge AccumulationAgentic FrameworksSystem Design

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationTeam LeadershipStakeholder Alignment

Industry Keywords

R&DDomain UnderstandingConfidence RepresentationAccountability BarMatrixed Organization

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, lead the AI science team that builds our enterprise world model and agentic-learning capability for the R&D agentic AI platform.
Devise the approach, set the technical direction, and lead the team that delivers it.
Design how agents represent accumulated domain understanding and reason against it, rather than re-deriving knowledge from raw sources on each task.
Build mechanisms for the system to represent its own confidence, boundaries, gaps, and contradictions explicitly.
Partner with scientists and domain experts so their expertise becomes something the system can apply consistently at scale.
Define and prove the accountability bar: demonstrate that the system produces better decisions over time.
Recruit, build, and lead a team of 4–8 AI scientists.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 8 years of post-academic industry experience building and shipping AI/ML systems, with significant time owning technical architecture.
Deep, hands-on expertise with modern AI systems: large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic frameworks, and knowledge representation.
Demonstrated track record designing systems where knowledge accumulation, memory, or continual learning was the central technical challenge.
Experience designing systems that learn and improve from real-world operation and expert feedback (e.g., active learning, in-context / memory-based learning, outcome-driven refinement).
Strong people leadership experience, including recruiting, building, and leading technical or scientific teams in a matrixed organization.
Ability to set and defend a technical architecture and hold a team accountable to it.
Excellent communication skills: able to align scientists, engineers, domain experts, and senior stakeholders around a technical strategy.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year